Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 28, 2023

In this week’s edition, we discuss The deadly mistakes that will kill your startup The end of season 1 of the EH podcast Let’s get to it. ? The deadly mistakes that will kill your startup Author and startup design leader Michael Burnett has seen many deadly mistakes repeatedly and observed how they played out. Any one of these will slowly kill your startup, so tackle them head-on at the starting line: A startup fails to find product-market fit —  You need to perform Discovery, Validation, and Us

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

With a drier than normal investment scene, founders are looking for more effective ways to reach the right VCs. To that end, over the past few weeks, thousands of founders have applied to land capital through a common app, but instead of hoping to land into a university, they’re hoping to land capital from top investors. The platform they’ve been using is Seed Checks , launched by venture capitalist and growth marketing entrepreneur Julian Shapiro around one month ago.

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StartupNation

MARCH 28, 2023

Even the most die-hard fans of Logan Roy, the fictional family patriarch at the heart of HBO’s hit… The post How to Succeed in a Family Business — and Enjoy ‘Succession’ for What It Is appeared first on StartupNation.

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Deskmag

MARCH 28, 2023

Struggling to increase the revenue of your coworking space? In this article, our guest author Helga shares five effective hacks to help maximize profits and keep your business running smoothly.

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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Jason Malki

MARCH 27, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Shawn Taikratoke, he is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mozee. A startup focused on redefining the human journey. Shawn Taikratoke is a seasoned software engineer and leader with a remarkable career spanning over a decade in the tech industry. With an unwavering passion for innovation, Shawn has made his mark on the world by developing cutting-edge solutions and working with leading companies such as Apple, Fossil, and worked with various organizations within the Dep

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 31, 2023

A behavioral scientist shares the data to prove it and offers best practices to minimize quiet quitting and lower productivity concerns amid a hybrid return to office. Quiet quitting —a term that has become all too familiar for business owners—refers to doing the bare minimal tasks of your job description well enough that you don’t get fired. Introduced in March 2002, it only started to gain traction as an issue of concern among business leaders when US government data on productivity , released

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 30, 2023

In February Sandy Wollman, Marty Isaac, and myself worked with the Angel Capital Association to evolve New England & New York’s syndication process to work for more angel groups. Angels from New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania came together to test out our new approach to syndicating deals. Representatives from other syndication groups from as far as the west coast attended as well.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 29, 2023

USV is an investor in Bolster , a marketplace for fractional and full-time executive talent for startups and growth companies. This week Bolster launched a daily short (5min) podcast and email with actionable insights and advice from founders, operators, and investors. It is called The Daily Bolster. I did a Daily Bolster episode and it is featured today.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Apple has quietly acquired a Mountain View-based startup, WaveOne , that was developing AI algorithms for compressing video. Apple wouldn’t confirm the sale when asked for comment. But WaveOne’s website was shut down around January, and several former employees , including one of WaveOne’s co-founders , now work within Apple’s various machine learning groups.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 29, 2023

A digital marketing strategy is a nonnegotiable element of a successful company. Billions of people use the internet at any given time during the day. Your business’s success hinges on reaching the right audience at the right time, which is why the value of digital marketing cannot be overstated. However, if your company is new to digital marketing, it can take some time to identify your specific needs.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Startup founders are often too focused on the amount of money they can get from an investor that they mostly fail to see the value that other investors have to offer to grow their businesses further. Sharon Lou, venture partner at Indelible Ventures , considers this as one of the top mistakes that founders commit when raising funds. “Founders should also evaluate which VC is able

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 30, 2023

As generative AI captivates Startupland, startups will do what they have always done: integrate new technology to build transformative businesses. Incumbents have seized the moment with Microsoft, Adobe, & others integrating generative AI into their products quickest. In response, startups must develop moats to stake out their market. What are these moats?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

If you think embedded insurance is the only hot thing in insurtech these days, we’ve got a surprise in store for you: While it’s true that startups that help sell insurance together with other products and services are enjoying tailwinds, there are plenty of other opportunities in the space, several investors told TechCrunch+. You see, insurtech startups often need to take into account the myriad rules and regulations in place when they seek to innovate and embed insurance into products, which m

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HPA

MARCH 27, 2023

We’re excited to announce that Zengines , the first AI-powered data conversion platform, raised $5M in funding. HPA participated in the round , which was led by Hyde Park Venture Partners. The funding will be used to expand product, engineering, and go-to-market capabilities. Zengines has created an entirely new way of converting data. When organizations migrate data to new applications, systems, or outsourced services, Zengines automates the end-to-end data conversion process.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register 541 Ventures , a Los Angeles-based global venture capital firm, announces its official debut into the innovative and influential ecosystem of family offices in Southern California. The event, co-hosted by The Global 51, a family office association, and Revere, an information platform for asset allocators and emerging VC managers, brought together over 30 family offices and investment

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Founder Bounty

MARCH 25, 2023

If building a startup is hard enough try adding a recession to it. I have been through techstars and so know how hard it really is! Preparing for a recession involves taking steps to protect yourself and your finances from potential economic downturns. A recession is coming quickly and there are a few key things you and your business should do to prepare for it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Impact investor Goodwell Investments and Oxfam Novib , a Dutch foundation and Oxfam International affiliate, have set up Pepea, a €20 million ($21.7m) fund, to provide financing to early-stage startups in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia. The fund, created with the backing of Oxfam Novib Impact Investments, will provide venture debt with a focus on mezzanine finance, which is a debt that can be turned into equity.

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Continuations

MARCH 25, 2023

I am writing this post to organize and share my thoughts about the extraordinary progress in artificial intelligence over the last years and especially the last few months (link to a lot of my prior writing ). First, I want to come right out and say that anyone still dismissing what we are now seeing as a “parlor trick” or a “statistical parrot” is engaging in the most epic goal post moving ever.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 27, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Harriet, a leading platform championing female founders, has partnered with venture capital firms Artesian, Wavemaker Partners, Wavemaker Impact, B Capital, and 1982 Ventures to launch a new forum aimed at bridging the funding gap for female-led startups in the Asia Pacific region.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 30, 2023

Why You Can’t Raise VC Money Photo by Jp Valery on Unsplash Many entrepreneurs have experienced the keen sting of rejection when venture capital firms refuse to invest in or otherwise respond to their exciting new startups. In fact, founders today have less than a 5% chance of getting institutional money from the top VCs, and the most elite firms boast an even rarer rate of success (for example, the odds of securing backing from Andreessen Horowitz are approximately 0.7% ).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

French startup Ledger has added more money to its Series C funding round. The company designs and manufactures so-called hardware wallets to secure crypto assets. In 2021, the company raised €356 million ($385 million at today’s exchange rate). And the company is adding another €100 million ($108 million) in new funding. This is an extension round as the valuation of the company isn’t changing — €1.3 billion ($1.41 billion at today’s exchange rate).

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David Teten VC

MARCH 30, 2023

I asked Sriram Gollapalli , a founding member of TBD Angels and Long Angle , to share some details on TBD Angel’s tech stack and the ways in which it has helped TBD become one of the largest and most active angel networks in the US, since its inception 3 years ago. This is part of PEVCtech ‘s series on investment management firms’ tech stacks. Q: Please give us an overview of TBD Angels.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Equatorial Space Systems, a Singapore-based rocket propulsion and space launch startup, has raised US$1.5 million in seed funding led by Elev8.VC. The round was also joined by SEEDS Capital and Masik Enterprises. The company’s aim is to enable space access at greatly reduced risk, cost, and environmental impact compared to incumbent solutions.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2023

Let’s get right down to it. Your banking relationship can be like a great marriage or a bad trip to the DMV. In most cases it is strictly your choice. But the results of that choice will reverberate for what could be years. Yes, we will spend a moment reviewing the SVB-Signature Bank crisis that recently left many of us losing sleep. But we will do this in the context of our decision-making and protection of our businesses.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Happy Tuesday Crunch! To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and reimagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth — new stages, new content, and new opportunities.

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